In today’s business world, it is more important than ever to be able to digitally transform your company in order to keep up with the competition. However, how to do so can be a very complex question to answer. Digital transformation is a commonly used answer these days. But companies…
Recent PLM Stack article – Thoughts about PLM Business Model caught my attention. Check this out here. The last decades demonstrated many changes in the ways business software can be distributed and sold. New cloud technologies created tons of new opportunities to change business models. As such, companies are moving…
Companies and businesses need to grow. If they don’t, businesses will die and investors won’t get their money back. According to CIMdata, the growth of PLM business was in the upper single-digit (9.4% for PLM and 8.6% for cPDM). You can check my blog from the last year – PLM…
A few days ago I wrote an article discussing why the strategy of building PLM on top of PDM can be a wrong solution – 3 Reasons for not growing existing PDM into full PLM system. I also enjoyed discussion and comments on LinkedIn. Check it out here. This discussion…
During the last decade, we’ve seen the establishment of new business models in software. I checked my blog about future PLM business models from 2010 and I can say that the future is here – subscriptions, services, maintenance included in subscriptions. These are elements of new business models used by CAD and PLM…
Unless you live under the rock for the last few weeks, you probably noticed a massive amount of emails telling you about updated privacy policy. It was a reaction of businesses on introduction of new European regulation – GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In general GDPR is supposed to protect…
SAP is changing their business model. Engineering.com article – First of its Kind: New SAP Pricing Model is Based on Digital Access by Verdi Ogwell brings some nuggets and ideas about SAP business model changes. The first in its kind, digital model suggest new way to license direct human access and…
Nobody is buying PLM. PLM projects are usually “sold” to customers. And this is not an easy job. Many of PLM sales individuals I know are not having formal sales training and coming with manufacturing and engineering background. I wanted to share some of my experience in interviewing manufacturing companies…
Engieering.com article earlier this week brought the news of significant deal related to the PLM implementation services domain – Indian HCL Buys Volvo IT, Wins Battle with IBM. The remarkable thing – Volvo is divesting its IT services and shift towards usage of external providers. I found the following passage interesting:…
Seriously, how do you take your coffee (err… PLM)? I might like my PLM with free upgrade service and no license fee. It smells kinda disruptive. But look around. The world has changed. Airbnb – the world’s largest accommodation provider owns no real estate. Uber – the world’s largest…
